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NOVEMBER 22ND. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL. At 12.15 in the morning the lookout post reported flares to the north of the island. A strong southerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The motor life-boat B.A.S.P., on temporary duty at the station, was launched at one o’clock and found, five miles to the north, the motor fishing boat Finross from Cruit Island, with a crew of five. She had been overtaken by bad weather while herring fishing, and her crew, after getting their nets aboard, were unable to start the engine. Realising that they were drifting to sea with the ebb tide the men burnt their shirts soaked in paraffin to attract attention. With some difficulty the life-boat took the Finross in tow and brought her into Burtonport at seven o’clock that morning. She reached her station again at eleven o’clock. - Rewards, £26 2s. 8d..